finally, I remembered that I was keeping a blog. And that I needed to post an update. For whom, I don't really know... is anyone even following this site? XD

Anyway, I'll talk about why I [almost] forgot to post updates later. :D

And before I forget, thanks for the wonderful comment, Anonymous~ I think I want to join your new religion and praise the true god, Calcium. XDDD


UPDATES:

Prince of After School: Chapter 1 DL @ ryColaa

OMG, Prince of Tennis. : O

XDD

ryColaa has announced that there will be a sequel to the series Prince of Tennis, to come out on March on a monthly basis. Prince of After School is something related to the series but is not the rumored sequel. Just click on the link to find out more about it. I'm too busy spazzing about the sequel and the comics-thing. Damn it, I hate this. I don't want to have a sequel for tenipuri. I've already traded my love of tennis for Gin-chan's Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon! DAMN IT. XDD

[sidenote: Tezuka is officially Echizen's mom. LOL. Wait, does that make Fuji the dad?! WAIT! IS THIS SOME HAPPY PERFECT FAMILY?! : O]

[AND WTFH PERVERTMAID!INUI]


Bleach: Chapter 333 DL @ Bleach7 | OL @ Onemanga

Again, I cry substantial release, please. D:

Anyway, this week we have Soi Fon. :D Aaah, we knew you wouldn't let us down, taichou! XD]

Matsumoto's having a lot of difficulty fighting 3-on-1... But what's this? Someone's come to help?! Who could it be?!

SORT OF SPOILER

that person uses explosives [?] It seemed like explosives to me.. ugh.. who could you be..? Could it finally be the Vaizards?! Urahara's side?! Someone else from Soul Society?! [We can't count Isshin and Ryuuken because they're having a reunion. At Isshin's. or Ryuuken's. Doesn't matter, really, as long as there's a flat surface and some slippery liquid they can use as lubricant. 8D]

[I kind of wanted to say Ishida, but we already know that's impossible.. :D]

Ugh, Uryuu, where the fuck are you?!


Naruto: Chapter 424 DL @ NarutoChuushin | OL @ Onemanga

Is he.. really..

Dead?


D: I guess we'll have to wait for two weeks, as there will be no manga next week. Will Kakashi.. oh please.. don't.. Kishi-sensei.. D:


[And what about Fat-boy --- erm, Chouji?]


Naruto Shippuden: Episode 83 DL @ NarutoCentral | DL @ RealityLapse | OL @ NarutoCentral

I haven't really seen both this and 82. I'll give a proper comment when I have. :D


Eyeshield21: 305th DOWN! DL @ ryColaa | OL @ Onemanga

-laughs- Damn, I didn't get to see his dad's face. Aaah, but I knew it.

Still, I'm a bit disappointed.. D:


What a corny ending! Ah, but it fits somewhat.. 8D anyway, Sena was really corny-funny in the first place, anyway.. And as usual, Monta was idiot-boy-love. Ah, wait, I think he can change from idiot-boy-love to techno-incompetent-idiot-boy-love. 8D Monta, I so love you.. (heart)

Awww.. our little Sena has gotten so popular! Sena, you sly fox! XD Don't tell me Hirumacchin's lesson's are actually paying off... LOL But the HaHa Brothers won't let you get your way, huh? LOL

We're treated to some tidbits of Oujou [Ootawara's still an idiot.. -___-], and we're presented with some bittersweet statements from Takami, which gets our hero thinking about his future after high school graduation... and Sena answers in a most predictable, but bittersweetly honest, JUMP-like manner..

And with this, the beautiful manga ends. Aaah, it was su-WAIT, SAY WHAT?!

AMERICAN FOOTBALL YOUTH WORLD CUP?!

[Oh, Hilman, I love you.. XD Will my beloved Kuji be coming back to ES to lend his voice again? Oh dear!]

OMG, EYESHIELD IS TEH BESHTESHT EVA.

[please excuse the n00b talk. just a little bit overwhelmed that ES21 IS NOT YET OVER.]


Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Target 215 OL @ Onemanga
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Target 216 OL @ Onemanga
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Target 217 OL @ Onemanga

Tuna-fish is so cool. He's become so strong.. but will he be able to beat the boss? D:

And what will become of them now that they have reached their target? : O


[And where are the others? I was kind of hoping that TYL!Ryohei would be sent back to the past, too, but I guess that's not going to happen now.. D:]


Regarding the downloads: I haven't been able to find links aside from Megaupload and Rapidshare. Now, I know a lot of people have trouble downloading from these two, so if anyone wants to have the chapters uploaded in another host [mediafire or 4shared], just tell me, and I'll work something out. :D


D.Gray-Man: Chapter 178 DL @ DGrayManAnime | OL @ Onemanga

Last chapter we saw Link die.

Or not.

Ahahah, a talking Link doll. How exquisite. :D

It kind of makes me happy to see such vibrant AllenLink hints. In the first page. Of this very release. :D

But uhm. I have a stupid question. A really stupid one.


I haven't really been following the manga for long. I just started reading it when the anime ended, beginning with the chapter where the anime stopped [just before the Cross Marian thing..] So I'm not really sure about this, but is Noise Marie a girl? 'Cause in this chapter both Kanda and the Akuma refer to her as a female.. I though Marie was a male? I got that from the anime, of course, obviously.

So.. so.. Marie is a guy, right? And this was just a simple typo.. ahahahah.. -sweatdrop-

He's a guy, right? Right?!

D>



Anyway, enough about that unknown sex of Marie. We now go to th reason why I almost forgot to update. :D

Just after the Prince of Tennis manga ended, I began to drift away from the fandom, in search of a new one. I didn't stick around to wait for the semi-finals of the Nationals Tournament, seeing as I already knew what was going to happen. Also, the few episodes of it that I did see made me cringe and rethink my decision to be a patient little fangirl and wait it out. [I saw Fuji's match with Shiraishi, MomoKai match and Kawamura's]

Disappointed at how [rushed] everything seemed, I started looking for newer [slashy] fandoms and came up with Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn. Yes, I do know the proper name of that series. I just prefer the shorter one. :D

Anyway, so I drifted to the Reborn fandom and at once fell in love with 8059 [which actually later morphed into Ry59, then 1859, then 5927, then back to 8059]. I followed both manga and anime to the latest, and when I had finished updating myself, I got the urge to add another fandom to the list ---- which later became Gintama.

Now while I was drifting further from the tenipuri fandom, I had already, long before that, drifted from the tenimyu fandom. I tried to follow that 3rd gen myus and the generations after, but I failed. I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to watch the myus anymore, seeing as the casts have changed [and it seemed to me that they were getting suckier each time.. no offence..]

The first myu I ever watched was that of Dream Live 1st. By the time I got around to watching that, the 1st gen cast had already graduated --- and I think the 2nd gen had already started rehearsals? Or maybe even performances, yeah.. But as anal as I am, I really strived to look for the 1st gen myus before venturing to the 2nd gen's.

So you can say I have a certain bias. Up till now, after seeing all the 1st gen myus [the ones available online, of course, not the actual performances] and all the 2nd gen myus and some 3rd gen, I still think that the 1st gen cast did the best job. Despite the fact that they probably have the most number of casted Ryomas, Fujis, Eijis and even Tezukas, you can't really help but love them [and of course, they have the perfect Golden Pair --- again, no offence to the fans of the other GPs..]

I held a soft spot for them for a long time, and while the prospect of a younger, [relatively fresher] batch was certainly appealing, I still would have liked for my old cast to play their characters longer. Or even until the myus ended, even.

But I guess the second cast had it's charm, and a very different one at that. It seems like majority of the fans didn't take too well with the change in casting, and according to some reports, the [early] shows of the 2nd gen weren't as popular as the first gen's. I think I even remember Kuji [or was it Kaji? Both of them, I think..] saying that they were disheartened at their first shows because there were vacant seats [read: rows] at the front, and it seemed like there were only a very few number of people interested in going..

But something happened, and the shows started picking up. A lot of comparisons were made, of course --- how the new Golden Pair just wasn't like the old one, how more Momo-ish MoriEiji was compared to Kaji, how un-Tezuka-like Shirotan was, how [messed up] the new Fuji's singing was.. stuff like that..

[notice that I didn't touch two of the major characters. :D I didn't touch Kotaro since we all know what happened to him. Kuji.. well, Kuji holds a special place in my heart, so.. :D)

But even then, I think what made the cast really shine was that they didn't give up, regardless of the negative comments. They held on to their professionalism and performed still --- and personally, I think that this characteristic of the 2nd cast earned them the fans' [new ones and old] respect, which in turn gave them this edge that fans, consciously or not, started to flock to.

When it was time for them to go, I felt really sad. For some time, I looked forward to the new cast, wondering what kind of personalities and new faces would greet us fans... but I never got around to actually fangirling over them. I guess I just kind of got turned off by the unavailability of the videos.

The point is, I had a good time with the 1st + 2nd gen, so I started looking into them more deeply. And of course, by looking deeply, I meant researching their other works, their lives, their fans.. I found a lot about the 1st gen GP, more specifically about Nagayama. :D Then, when I heard he did a movie with Aiba of 2nd gen, I flocked Aiba's fandom.

And I really didn't bother that much with the others. If someone were to be linked to Aiba because of a movie [Sukitomo], I'd flock to the person's fandom next. It was just an era of exploring for me, I think. A lot of new fandoms to try and all that. :D

Finally, I got settled with Aiba, Takumi, Nagayan and Ruito. Later I would add Shirotan, Kato and Kenta. Much later I would add Konii and Kuji. And then, much much much later, after seeing Treasure Box [and only because I heard Kuji was going to be there, hahah.. didn't even know Tuti + MoriEiji were the ones to look out for], I became a *pnish* fan. :D [and I guess I realized that Nagayan+Tuti were more than just simple friends after I delved into Tuti's life :D]

But then, the updates about these people began to slow down [I was really disheartened about Kuji's], and so my enthusiasm kind of slowed down as well. Then tenipuri ended, and I left the fandom completely. I had drifted into a new fandom [two, actually], and ever since then, I haven't really had much thought for the boys.

So why the sudden come back?

A friend kept fangirling about the Meganes albums, even asking me to show her the singles I bought from CDJapan. We talked about it a bit, and I kind of remembered the past..

So here I am, swamped with new info about two of the fandoms I've abandoned: Kujirai Kousuke + Tsuchiya Yuichi / Nagayama Takeshi. Uh. Tuti and Nagayan are considered here as a unit [or as a pair]. Well, that's a lie.. :D I actually follow them, too, as individuals, but I'm more inclined to seeing them together and fagirling about that.

And since I've been buried by all the info, I almost forgot to post this week's updates.. :D

Good thing I remembered, though~ XD

... Wait. Is that even a good thing at all? : O